Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
CHS football seniors (from left) Jesse Whipps-Schnelle, Nick Kubishta, Dallton Dewey and Logan Johnson are leading the Bulldogs’ drive to help St. Jude score a victory over pediatric cancer. GINI DAVIS/The Chronicle CRESWELL – Whenever they take the field, the…
Did you ever wish you had the chance to compete against a clock, dodging everyone and everything in your way as you make a mad dash in an effort to make it somewhere important on time. Such a scenario came…
To the Editor: Allegiance. I do not question the overriding importance of the Pledge of Allegiance as a statement of patriotism: We Americans depend on each other for our overall security in a dangerous world. But do we also pledge…
CRESWELL – Even with his six years of experience as a school board member, Mike Anderson admitted that he still gets a little nervous before each meeting. Voted in as chair for the 2019-20 school year, this will be Anderson’s…
COTTAGE GROVE — What started as a small Civilian Public Service (CPS) camp in 1945’s Waldport, Oregon, emerged into what became the Beat Movement of the early 1960s. These conscientious objectors from World War II became some of the key…
Connie Huston is at work on the Aqua Lions mural at the Warren H. Daugherty Aquatic Center in Cottage Grove. DANA MERRYDAY/THE CHRONICLE COTTAGE GROVE – As the Cottage Grove community waits breathlessly for the Oct. 1 reopening of the…
A few crabs in the trap can take the sting out of a fishless day trolling. These are from the lower Siuslaw bay. We did better over Labor Day weekend up at Newport, where we dropped traps outside the harbor…
Rick and Kathy have launched a new adventure, ”ExplOregon: The Backstories.” Readers can follow them online and in The Chronicle – with an opportunity to even join them. Oregonians love to travel, and we – Rick and Kathy Dancer –…
Daphne Mantis has been the Springfield Arts Commission board chair for two out of her three years as a commissioner. Formerly an attorney, in retirement she has started to take art classes and fuels her love of art through the…
The Springfield Justice Center, located at 230 4th St. in Springfield, will be hosting an Open House from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14. The Open House will be an opportunity for the community to meet police…